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Librarybelle
Caramel Crush | Jenn McKinlay
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Pickpick

Angie really annoyed me in this one! But, I don‘t think I‘d get along with Angie in real life, so props to Mel! 😂

Mel owes a former college friend a favor, and she is on the hunt for the real murderer. Lots of cupcakes, some shady business, and a real humdinger of a cliffhanger. Glad to see this series has picked up again! #LitsyAToZ #LetterC

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Librarybelle
Vanilla Beaned | Jenn McKinlay
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Pickpick

This one was so much better than the last couple I read in the series! The mystery and the solution seemed a little flimsy to me, but Mel and Angie in Vegas was a fun location for them. And, I‘m now craving cupcakes! 😂

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rwmg
The Cruellest Month | Hazel Holt
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Staying with an old friend in Oxford, Mrs Malory finds that her godson is more upset than his family realises about having found a body, crushed under falling bookshelves, because he believes it was no accident. She decides to investigate.

I would have loved the setting and characters in this cozy when it first came out around 1990 but now I found it rather meh, especially in its characterisation of gay men.

Reggie Were they the sassy sidekicks? 1mo
rwmg @Reggie See spoilers below 1mo
rwmg There were two gay men in the novel. One was the murderer and the other was a bitch who took great pleasure in telling the POV character how he and his then boyfriend had emotionally manipulated her 20 years before, thus wrecking some of her most precious memories of her university days.

No objection to gay men being the villains but not when they are the only gay men in the book.
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Reggie Totally agree with you. 1mo
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LeslieO
Ink and Shadows | Ellery Adams
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Reading the tagged book reminded me that I never finished tracking last year‘s series progress.
TOP ROW: continuation of series I‘m in the middle of (the real goal)
MIDDLE ROW: series started and finished
BOTTOM ROW: new series started
#SeriesLove2024.
Hope to do better with series I‘m in the middle of this year.

TheSpineView Great job! ❤️📚❤️ 2mo
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rwmg
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Pickpick

An old friend turns up on the Ducote sisters' doorstep, convinced her family are trying to kill her. Unfortunately, the family soon figures out where she's gone and follow, straining the sisters' hospitality to its limits, and that's before the deaths start.

First in a spin-off series. I could definitely have done with a family tree to keep Rosabelle's family straight in my mind.

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rwmg
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Bookwormjillk
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Mehso-so

I picked this book for complete escapism and easy reading, and it did deliver that. However the story line felt forced (really? Your sorority sister you haven‘t seen in 40 years shows up with her entire extended family and you just let them stay?) and the ending was kind of bonkers. Can‘t give it a pick, but also will probably read more of the series next time I‘m in a similar mood.

BarkingMadRead I read a couple books by this author, but remember not really caring much for them 🤣 probably for similar reasons 4mo
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Bookwormjillk
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#caturday reading

PuddleJumper Always watching you! 4mo
Bookwormjillk @PuddleJumper looking to see if I have a snack no doubt 4mo
suvata Aww kitty 🐈 4mo
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Leftcoastzen 😻👏😁 4mo
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Librarybelle
Sugar and Iced | Jenn McKinlay
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A beauty pageant asks for the bakery to make cupcakes for the pageant, and once again Mel and Angie are involved in a murder investigation. This one was better than some of the previous in the series, and I‘m always interested in the cupcakes (but not some of the concoctions created by the pageant participants…yuck).

Mel also has a pretty big life decision to make in this one.

Good listen! #LitsyAtoZ #LetterS #52BookClub25 #APunInTheTitle

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BookishMadHatter
Murder, She Wrote: Coffee, Tea, or Murder? | Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
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I enjoy these books more when George isn't in them. The quasi sort-of budding romance aspect feels too forced & not at all like Jessica to me.

This one's a January Book Bingo selection as well as part of a series (in fact, all the books I've read so far this month have been from different series ... never you mind how many are new series started lol).

#serieslove #serieslove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheSpineView Fantastic! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo
Andrew65 Excellent 🥳🥳🥳 5mo
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